Buckingham Palace's Summer Opening Exhibition to mark 70th Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
28th March 2018
During the ten weeks of the Summer
Opening of the State Rooms in 2018, visitors to Buckingham Palace
will be able to enjoy a unique exhibition to mark the 70th Birthday
of HRH The Prince of Wales, entitled Prince and Patron, the Royal
Collection has announced today. His…
Just months after the high profile
wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, Zara Phillips
married her longtime boyfriend, Mike Tindall. It wasn’t a wedding
full of cameras and politicians but an event with a down to earth
feeling. Zara Phillips is the…
At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in
the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey,
there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
had been newly granted the title, style and attribute of His Royal
Highness by Letters Patent from Whitehall on the morning of the
wedding and the announcement…
Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at
Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France.
The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the
English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with
the Barons, and King Edward II still…
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s
relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult
in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually
improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of
genuine closeness and affection. The…
It was a royal wedding that mixed
traditional and modern and the bride’s bouquet fitted right in.
Autumn Patricia Kelly was the debut bride of a new generation when
she married the Queen’s eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, at St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 17th 2008. The bride chose flowers
that featured many elements seen through the years at royal
marriages and added her own twist to…
